Hailey Niswanger - "Confeddie"

[Dave U. Random]

Wall Street Journal
by Nat Hentoff

For more than 60 years, I've seen recurring obituaries of
jazz. The threnodies are being prepared again�in the
National Endowment for the Arts' latest survey on public
participation in the arts and with such questions as "Can
Jazz Be Saved?" in which widely respected music critic
Terry Teachout wrote regretfully in this paper last summer,
"I don't know how to get young people to listen to jazz
again."

Both the survey and Mr. Teachout's column attracted
rebuttals in print and on the Internet, of course. But the
most exhilarating one I've heard is musical � "Confeddie"
(Amazon.com: http://xrl.us/Confeddie ), the debut CD of 19-
year-old alto saxophonist Hailey Niswanger, and a work with
the joyous feeling of the first day of spring.

This self-produced, self-released quartet session has such
a vibrantly building thrust of swinging surprises that
listening to it I was suddenly a Boston teenager again
fantasizing, as I played my clarinet, that one day Duke
Ellington would call and say, "We need a sub for Barney
Bigard tonight. Can you make it?"..

Continued: http://xrl.us/ConfeddieReview

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On Nov 10, 10:32 am, Dave U. Random <anonym...@anonymitaet-im-

inter.net> wrote:
> Wall Street Journal
> by Nat Hentoff
>
> For more than 60 years, I've seen recurring obituaries of
> jazz. The threnodies are being prepared again—in the
> National Endowment for the Arts' latest survey on public
> participation in the arts and with such questions as "Can
> Jazz Be Saved?" in which widely respected music critic
> Terry Teachout wrote regretfully in this paper last summer,
> "I don't know how to get young people to listen to jazz
> again."
>
> Both the survey and Mr. Teachout's column attracted
> rebuttals in print and on the Internet, of course. But the
> most exhilarating one I've heard is musical — "Confeddie"

> (Amazon.com:http://xrl.us/Confeddie), the debut CD of 19-

> year-old alto saxophonist Hailey Niswanger, and a work with
> the joyous feeling of the first day of spring.
>
> This self-produced, self-released quartet session has such
> a vibrantly building thrust of swinging surprises that
> listening to it I was suddenly a Boston teenager again
> fantasizing, as I played my clarinet, that one day Duke
> Ellington would call and say, "We need a sub for Barney
> Bigard tonight. Can you make it?"..
>
> Continued:http://xrl.us/ConfeddieReview

I started a thread earlier about her. A great trumpet player friend of
mine turned me on to her. Really gifted young player.

I believe that if you want young people to listen to jazz, or any
music for that matter, it has to have a beat and a melody that can be
whistled or hummed and easily recognized. If you want young people to
listen to your music play something young people want to listen to.